TY - CHAP
T1 - Palliative care and quality management
T2 - The core principles of quality improvement and their utility in designing clinical programs for end of life care and complex case management models
AU - Myers, Sarah
AU - Blank, Arthur E.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Over the past decade, efforts to define, build, and improve palliative care and care for complex chronic illness have been commonplace at both the micro- or organizational- and macro- or healthcare organization, payment, and regulatory policy-levels. Having grown largely out of the hospice movement, palliative care for many represents all that hospice does so well, and by extending hospice's reach offers a promise of comfortable and compassionate care earlier in the disease process than hospice is often able to.
AB - Over the past decade, efforts to define, build, and improve palliative care and care for complex chronic illness have been commonplace at both the micro- or organizational- and macro- or healthcare organization, payment, and regulatory policy-levels. Having grown largely out of the hospice movement, palliative care for many represents all that hospice does so well, and by extending hospice's reach offers a promise of comfortable and compassionate care earlier in the disease process than hospice is often able to.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-0-387-70875-1_13
DO - 10.1007/978-0-387-70875-1_13
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:79952596751
SN - 9780387708744
SP - 198
EP - 210
BT - Choices in Palliative Care
PB - Springer US
ER -